Just skimmed through the report the article cites, and a few bits stood out to me.

Despite being the world’s richest economy and spending far more on health care than any other country, the United States has long experienced poorer health outcomes and shorter life expectancy than other high-income countries.

By 2019, the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States was outranked by countries like Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Albania, and Czechia.

Some states, particularly those in the South, adopted pandemic control policies associated with devastating losses in life expectancy, leaving their populations with shorter life expectancy than struggling countries like North Korea, Syria, and Libya.

Truly, capitalist efficiency at its finest!